Apt Words
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Correct technical words, requiring no latitude of construction to give them the meaning intended. APTA VI RO A marriageable woman; sometimes used to denote that she is of legal age,, and discovert, but oftener with respect to physical capacity. APUD ACTA (Lat.) Among the recorded acts. This was one of the verbal appeals (so called by the French commentators), and was obtained by simply saying, appello. AQUA (Lat.) Water. It is a rule that water belongs to the land which it covers when it is stationary. Aqua cedit solo, water follows the soil.
2 Bl. Comm. 18; Co. Litt. 4.